Mop.



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PATENTED SEPT. 22, 1903. P. 11. LAY.

" MOP.

APPLICATION FILED APB. 1o. 190s.

R0 HODEL.

UNITED STATE-s s atented September 22, 193.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK R. IJAY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO THE PERFEC- TION BROOM COMPANY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

MOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Application filed April 1t), 1903.

To a/ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK R. LAY, a citi-` zen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of` Indiana, have invented anew and useful Mop,

of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to mops,.and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device of this class whereof the to parts may be assembled with facility and at small cost and in which the strands 0r otherl suitable flexible material comprising the rubbing-surface ofthe head are securely held against displacement or detachment and the fastening means therefor covered to prevent contact thereefwith adjacent objects in any position in which the mop may be used.

Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in the following descrip- 2o tion, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that various changes lin the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a mop constructed in accordance with the invention with the strands separated to show the fastening means therefor. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the first stepin the operation of constructing or assembling the parts of the mop. Fig. 3 is aview showing the en- 3 5 gagement of the extremities of the band, constituting the second step in the operation of constructing the mop. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view showing the parts after the introduction of the spreader, which is here 4o shown formed on one end of the handle. Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view taken in the plane of the fastening devices.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in ali the figures of the draw# ings.

In the preferred embodiment of the invention the flexible material of the head consists ofloosely-twisted strands of cotton or like material of a form well known in the art, the

5o same being indicated in the drawings by the the number of strands numeral l, and in the construction of the mop Letters Patent No. '739.786, dated september 22, 190e.

Seriana 152,063. (nomino or quantity of other flexible material necessary to4 form one mop (and preferably determined by weight) are Y disposed centrally upon the transverse dexible band 2, as shown in Fig., 2, after which the extremities of the band arefbrought together around the strands and are interlocked by means of thetongues or reverselybent terminals 2a These reversely-bent terminals overlap each other and are provided with alining perforations, through which a fastening device is passed and driven into the core or spreader now to any tendency of the terminals to separata A tapered spreader or core 3 is then inserted into the center of theV encircled strands, which are thus compressed transversely at the centers of their lengths and in the plane 7o of the band, while the portions thereof at opposite edges of the band are correspondingly bulged to overlapsaid edges, and thus prevent subsequent shifting of the strands in the band and acting as pads to prevent said 7 5V edges comingin cont-act with adjacent objects. The band is then secured to the spreader or core by means of pins, nails, or analogous fastening devices 4, each of which is preferably driven through openings 5 in one side of 8o the band and centrally through the core and spreader and also through the interposed mass of strands and terminally bent or clenched against the opposite side of the band to prevent accidental displacement. These nails, pins, or fastening devices are alternately arranged indierent transverse planes, and one of them is extended through the interlocking tongues or overlapped extremities of the band to prevent accidental disengage- 9o In practice the spreader or formed by a tapered extremity of the mophandle or staff 6. After the fastening of the band to the spreader the portions of the strands which are above and below the plane of the band are left free to fall loosely over the band to conceal the lat. Y ter, and thus prevent contact thereof with adjacent objects in whatever position the mop may be used. It will be noted that in either roo the depending or elevated position of the mop-head, as when the head is either below ment thereof. core preferably is thereof, as shown in Fig. 3. 6o Y be described and which will prevent 65 or above the other end of thehandle or staff, the free extremities of the strands at one side of the plane of the band Will fall over the latter, and therefore whether the mop is being used in scrubbing the door or Washing Winy dows the band Will be concealed and precompressed at an intermediate point, an encircling band disposed therearound at the point of compression with the material bulg- 1ng over the edges thereof, and a spread er arranged Within the material in saidband to bind. them securely together, the material being unrestricted on opposite sides of the band to permit its ends to fall over and cover said band.

A mop-head having a band, a spreader arranged therein, exible strands interposed between the spreader and the band, the latter being provided with interlocked extremities, and fastening devices securing the band to the spreader, one ofsaid fastening devices extending through the interlocked extremities of the band. l

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK R. LAY.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR H. BYFIELD, JNO. V. WAGONER. 

